Chinese telecommunications firm Huawei is looking to boost its mobile phone market stake via forthcoming Windows Phone 8- as well as Android-powered smartphones, and is also pondering its own mobile platform. The company is currently the sixth largest mobile phone vendor globally, selling 10.894 million mobile phones during Q2 2012 providing it with a 2.6% market share.

During an interview with news agency Reuters, Wan Biao, CEO of Huawei Device stated that the company is now considering developing its own mobile operating system (OS), as a fail safe, in order to relieve the company from its software dependence on firms like Google and Microsoft.

Google, along with some prominent Android OEMs (original equipment manufacturers), the likes of Samsung and HTC, are currently engaged in a copious amount of litigation, most notably as a result of patent lawsuits between Apple and Samsung.

“Whatever consumers like, we’ll develop,” Biao said, adding: “We’re also devoting resources into coming up with a phone operating system based on our current platform in case other companies won’t let us use their system one day.”

Huawei’s local rival ZTE is similarly aiming to spread its mobile OS wings by diversifying away from Android and Windows Phone OS, as the firm is working with Firefox browser maker Mozilla, to manufacture the first smartphones operating on the new mobile platform dubbed Firefox OS.

In related news, market analytics company IDC recently announced that China is poised to overtake the US as the number one smartphone market. According to the analytics firm, strong end-user demand, as well as an appetite for lower-priced smartphones, will make the People’s Republic of China the largest market for smartphones this year.